Location and Participation: Political Protest in Traditional and Non-Traditional States

Date of Creation

Summer 2018

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Description

This project looks at political participation and immigrant populations in “traditional” and “non-traditional” locations. As the most inclusive form of political participation, I chose to focus on protest. The protests compared are the Anti-Immigration Reform protests of 2006 and the support for DACA in 2017. The protests are compared between “traditional” and “non-traditional” locations, traditional meaning areas that have attracted immigrant populations throughout American history and non-traditional meaning areas that have recently drawn immigrants. This study looks specifically at California (traditional), Georgia, North Carolina, and Nebraska (non-traditional). To further analyze these protests, certain demographic factors that have been shown to influence participation were mapped using ArcGIS Online. These maps were analyzed to draw conclusions about political protest in 2017.

Keywords

digital scholarship, GIS, Hispanic populations, immigrant populations, political participation

Comments

Final project for the 2018 Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellows Program at Bertrand Library, Bucknell University.

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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Bucknell University's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Digital Project

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